Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-22
THE PEOPLE SPEAK.
A FEW EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION, So
LRCTED FROM MANY
Received at This 0fioe-fhs Course Of the Nntslh-
gsncsr' Severely Condemned BY
Our Gltizsns.

The exceedingly curt manner IN which
the Inteligencer, yesterday morning, dis
missed the libel upon the Reunion, wired
by a member of its staff to the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, and the entire abb
sence of anything like an apology or
regret from its columns, aroused
a more intense feeling among
our people than existed the day
before, if such thing be possible. Many
expressions of this feeling were received at
this Office during the day, and from the
number we select the following iOr publ
cation:
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'.ALTHOUGHHEB BE DEMOCRAT"
Great scotti But How the Democrats are
Stirred Up.
WHEELING, June 81, 1887.
To the Editor Of the Register:
SIR:-I would like to call your attention
to Capt. c. ]. Rawlings remarks as pub
lished in your paper Of to-day:
&C. J. Rawling-There is nothing in the
story. The President is entitled to all
respect, even though he is Democrat, and
he would be welcomed here"
In view of the foregoing Democrat
would like to enquire upon what meat this
Cesar feeds that he has grown so great
who he is, whence doth he come and by
what means he has grown to gigantic pro
portions. The President is entitled TO al
respect, even though he is Democrat.
How refreshing, how kind and how eonde
scending on the part Of the gallant anC
gracious captain. Are We to believe tha
this Republican brother means that to b'
Democrat initiates against mans nigh
to be respectable and vice versa? Ii thu
he the case, we have no hesitation in tell
ing him that the forty-six hundred Demo
Gratis in Ohio county do not acknowledg'
hiscapacity to be Judge and have never ye
accorded him any special qualifications fol
such judicial ability. In fact, 1T isabout time
that halt should be called 10 matters
this character and that men like the Cap
tain should he given to understand tina
their responsibility is no greater than tha'
of their neighbors, that every Democrat II
Ohio county is the gallant Captains pee
and that hundreds of them are entitled Il
and receive a respect of which he would b
proud to be an occasional recipient. INT
arrogance and impertinenCe Ofthese bloody
shirt shriekers, turned out office holders
and professional "holier than thou" small
fry in the Republican party are laughahi'
and disgusting, amusing and contemplate
and ring all the changes between the sub
lime and ridiculous when we recall thu
sources and recognize the slender tOunda
ton of brains, culture, learning and respec
liability upon which they build their as
sumed but discredited superiority. Cap
tain Rawliug would receive Preslden
Cleveland with respect "even though he Il
a Democrat" Had we not better ash
whether Cleveland would receive Captain
Rawlipg? It strikes us that that would
be more to the point
We feel very sure that if the Captain go
a chance to receive the President he woulC
receive him with respect and that II III
did not, many Democrats would know thu
reason why, and the subsequent proceed
ipgs would not interest the Captain at all
The best thing for men like Rawling is Il
cease to plume themselves upon superior
ity of which they alone are conscious, ant
realize that great world only laughs as i
beholds them struttiug around like lot o.
popiniays. Let them remember that thu
war is over, that they are not the salt o
the earth, that the Democratic party is ii
power, has come to stay, will be running
the government when they are forgotten
and that, If in the meantime they are per
mitted to be flies on the chariot wheels, /
is by the gracious permission of the Demo
cratic party. Let these sham, high step
ping gentry also be thankful if once in I
while our President should allow them il
the role of Wallets to tie his shoes Ger
tainly their recent conduct would indicat.
that their intellects are upon level Will
the average Wallets.
CLEVELAND DEMOCRAT.